Review: A Gift of Freedom

There are two ways to read this
book: as a paean to a hardworking,
bristly, moderately
visionary industrialist who became a
financial angel of the right; or as a step-by-step recounting of how a group of
conservative intellectuals allied themselves
with a right-leaning wealthy philanthropist
to accomplish a massive transformation
of American political culture.

On the first count, the book serves
up an excessively laudatory tribute to
John Olin, a man who inherited substantial
wealth and...

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